No person is important enough to make me angry.
THOMAS CARLYLEA person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.
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There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
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If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
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Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.
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A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
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Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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